The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures, but it is principally an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually sexual, are acknowledged. In some cultures, marriage is recommended or considered to be compulsory before pursuing any sexual activity.
The result is the annual amortization expense. To amortize the trademark, decrease the trademark's asset value by the annual amortization expense. So if you have a new trademark you are only going to keep for one term, and it is worth $1000, the value of the asset would decrease $100 every year over 10 years.cquired Trademarks. For trademarks acquired through the purchase of a product-line or business, the intangible asset is recorded at its fair value. Fair value is how much something would cost if someone sold the asset to an unrelated party, and neither party was under any compulsion to enter into the transaction.
1 Depreciation is used to ratably reduce the cost of a tangible fixed asset, and amortization is used to ratably reduce the cost of an intangible fixed asset. 2  The amortized cost term can also be applied to the accumulated amount of depletion of a natural resource that has been charged to expense. For example, ABC International has been depreciating a machine in its production area for the last five years. 2  The $48,000 that has been charged to depreciation expense thus far is its amortized cost. 3  As another example, ABC has been amortizing the acquired cost of a patent for several years.